That shield was a life saver for me but it also makes the game much easier and shorter.

Talk to everyone you can. There's always someone who will point you in the right direction. If you talk with Barenziah she will get you started. To find her, just head out the back door of the throne which is upstairs from where you start and her door will be straight ahead.

Inge, I haven't seen any of the Dark Brotherhood. I think they are gone. It took a while for me to get out of the palace area, and when I figured out how to do it, I felt really dumb. I have been through all of Mournhold--it isn't very big. I probably did get hit with poison--at one time, 5 of my attributes were in red and my boots went to 0. I had to reload because my Nord died and it didn't happen again. I probably didn't run into that because I took the short way next time. Speaking of Nords--guess who I saw, at least it looked like him...the naked Nord. He said that it wasn't him, but he seemed to know a lot about the witch. Funny!

Tami, I talked to everyone in the Temple except one who seemed to have a quest and I cut it off. I'll go back and check. I think I talked to Barenziah--I'll try again.

Pokey, Found the Smith that will custom make my armor-that's a must.And spent the rest of the day with Creeper with the Dark Brotherhood stuff!Now, I'm going to look for someone to help me figure out who wants me dead Ingie

1. You aren't able to see anything on the World Map in the game but you can see the local map for direction. You do get a paper map of the area with the disk for Tribunal. You will have to use that to see how to get from one place to another.

2. You get main quests from 2 places. One is at the palace and the other is at the Temple. I beleive you can start at either place but you do end up doing stuff for both.

Pokey,You're busy! For the estate sale thing to kick in a little, get a quest from one of the collector merchants in the area.To build a stronghold, you have to belong to one of the Great Houses-for me it was Hlaalu; was advanced up to Father by Mr. Yuck in Vivec, and then went to Balmora and talked about my stronghold.It goes it stages for a couple of quests-which were a snap-and bingo I've got my stronghold built. Don't know that it's all that great, but it is home and safe.I'm staying out of the sewers for a while, I am thinking about finishing up the Temple Quest-Row's got me interested in them.I said no to acting in the play: and no to the bouncer job.Did a couple of cure potions; I am still just wandering around a little going back and forth.Oh, I have the quest for the Robot thing also, that's easy, so no hurry.I like the fact of no Cliff Racers, when going back I realize how much I detest those things. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" /> Ingie